The Irrationality of Arizona's Immigration Crackdown

CNS News on the Bill: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/64385

Darian Worden's Commentary: http://c4ss.org/content/2275

Steve Chapman on why the crackdown will be wholly ineffective: http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/22/how-immigration-crackdowns-bac/

Sources on immigration and crime: http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/22/immigration-and-crime
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13229
http://reason.com/archives/2009/07/06/the-el-paso-miracle

Zack de la Rocha's PSA for Alto Arizona on the bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVOZGAbEARM

Why don't they immigrate legally? Here's why:
http://reason.org/news/show/1003252.html

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[tarryounix]

"innocent until proven guilty" is for US Citizens. You know, the people who live here, work here, and pay for everything.. Grow up already and learn some simple math...

[Leftofawesome]

@tarryounix Wong Wing v United States, Hamdan v Rumsfeld, and numerous other cases of precedent say procedural protections are for everyone the US government accuses of a crime, not just citizens. Grow up already and learn some simple constitutional law. And as for "simple math," if you're using that as a condescending way of making an economic argument, perhaps you would like to explain why immigration has a POSITIVE economic impact?

[IgnacioYana]

another fat  and useless stupid internet nerd

[AbitaVets]

@thelotuswithers a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers - average of $5,000 per baby. Those 6,000 births to illegal aliens represent 40% of the births paid for by Medicaid in Colorado.

GEE HOW MUCH MONEY DID YOU SAY THEY PAID IN TO SYSTEM?

Cochise County, Arizona Health Department spends 30 percent of its annual $9 million budget on illegal aliens.

[AbitaVets]

@thelotuswithers

CHILD

WERE THEY NOT A DRAIN, WHY DO EMERGENCY ROOMS AND OB/GYN SERVICES FAILING IN BORDER AREAS.

A NON-CITIZEN CAN CROSS THE BORDER, PREGNANT, GO 2 EMG ROOM. HAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF MEDICAL CARE. PAY NOT A DIME INTO SYSTEM.

THEY HAVE NOT WORKED HERE LEGALLY. IF THEY ARE WORKING THEY HAVE STOLEN AN ID. OR S. S. NUMBER.

CHILD

I HAVE BEEN PAYING INTO A FAILED SOCIAL SYSTEM LONGER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE. SOCIAL SECURITY IS BANKRUPT

PLEASE

ENOUGH EXPENSIVE LIB FAILURES

[thelotuswithers]

@AbitaVets how do illegal aliens suck on the system with out giving anything into them? you do understand that illegals in fact still pay taxes? and bills and buy products etc.. but they are not benefited from social welfare such as social security, they literally pay the same things you do and get nothing in return, if anything we leach on them and give very little in return. fool :)

[James25H]

wow this guy needs to shave and do something with that hair

[APcaveman]

illegal is illegal......

[AbitaVets]

LEFT NOW MEANS STUPID BEYOND MEASURE?

ALLOWING PEOPLE TO WALK ACROSS BORDERS AND SUCK BENEFITS FROM A SYSTEM THEY HAVE NEVER PAID INTO. A LEFT IDEA

SPEND MORE MONEY THAN ACTUALLY EXISTS. A LEFT IDEA

RUN EMPLOYMENT AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE. A LEFT IDEA

LOOK MAN

THESE IDEAS HAVE ALREADY BANKRUPTED CALIFORNIA AND IS SENDING NEW YORK TO SAME ECONOMIC FAILURE.

THESE WERE FORMERLY OUR MOST PROSPEROUS STATES

YOU DO UNDERSTAND BANKRUPTCY IS FAILURE RIGHT? RIGHT???????

[BuckleNutz]

@angel781792 You need to kill yourself ... please! People like you are worthless and weak. You should put a lip lock on the snotty end of your daddy's fuck stick and suck out the rest of the stupidity that he gave you so he doesn't pass it on to anymore of your siblings that might make it into the gene pool while the life guard isn't looking. FUCK YOU CUNT. Your the welfare type who doesn't give a shit about anything but anchor-babies. Hope you get sick and die.

[BuckleNutz]

You know, if you showered and shaved once you wouldn't have to itch yourself so much. With that said, you are quit ignorant of what is really happening.